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Robert Williams, Tremont Waters, Carsen Edwards, Grant Williams stand out as Boston Celtics win 4th straight in summer league




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By John Karalis | JKaralis@masslive.com




LAS VEGAS -- The Boston Celtics have swept through the “regular season” portion of their Las Vegas schedule, winning their first four games and going into the weekend tournament as the top seed.

The Celtics were led by Grant Williams’ 21 points, which is especially impressive because it came 4-of-5 from 3. He hasn’t had the most consistent week from deep, but when he’s on, he’s on. He was one of six Celtics in double figures as they put up a whopping 113 points.

Here are five things we learned as the Celtics improved to 4-0 in Las Vegas


Max Strus can shoot

We haven’t seen a ton of Strus in Vegas, but this was a good reminder of why the Celtics handed him a two-way deal right away. He shot 3-for-7 from 3 against the Grizzlies. He still has to prove that the rest of his game is worthy of NBA minutes, but he’s got the size (6’6”) and the shot, to be an offensive threat.


Tremont Waters is shifty

“He’s super savvy. The game comes so easy to him on both ends,” Brad Stevens said of Waters earlier in the week. He has a remarkable ability to get defenders off balance and then hit them with a burst of speed to get the space he needs to make a play.

Tremont Waters is legitimately going to injure someone with his stop/start
pic.twitter.com/2DR959jHZY

— Max Carlin (@maxacarlin) July 12, 2019


From there he can make passes that he’s been tracking for longer than a defender thinks. This was always going to be an alley oop to Robert Williams. All Waters needed to do was get everyone looking at him as he drove.

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Waters’ only limitation is his size. He is a very good point guard that has NBA-level talent. He’s proven that over and over in summer league. The next thing he has to prove is that he can do it against NBA-level defenders.


Robert Williams looked like a guy with NBA experience

It most certainly wasn’t a perfect game for him, but it was a very good one. This is something the Celtics have done a lot with Williams this week.

This is art: https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisgrenham/status/1149521810502799360

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) July 12, 2019


The Celtics have been running offense through Williams in the high post to get him used running dribble hand offs and pick-and-rolls. The obvious goal is to get him rolling to the rim to take advantage of his freak athleticism. Speaking of which, watch him nearly hit his head on the rim on this alley oop.

HIS HEAD IS ABOVE THE RIM
https://mobile.twitter.com/celtics/status/1149514683121991680

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) July 12, 2019


Williams finished with 16 points and 16 rebounds, a nice sign of progress over the course of the week.


Carsen Edwards will pull up from anywhere

You know by now that Edwards is a scorer. This is the first game where he didn’t lead the team in scoring, but he still managed a nice 15 point night. This counted for three of them, but it should be worth four.

Carsen Edwards will pull up from anywhere #NBASummer
https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/1149519760561860609

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) July 12, 2019


The best of his buckets might have been this one, simply for the reaction it got from Grant Williams.

just having fun
https://twitter.com/celtics/status/1149516594780917761

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) July 12, 2019


Grant Williams is a +/- god

Grant Williams is now +85 in four Summer League games.
— Tom Westerholm (@Tom_NBA) July 12, 2019

He likes to say he impacts winning, and it’s pretty obvious that he’s doing just that this week.



bob
MY NOTE: Both teams were undefeated heading into this.

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Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
about 38 minutes ago
Celtics beat Grizzlies 113-87 to finish pool play at summer league with a 4-0 record. They will be the No. 1 seed when tournament play opens up on Saturday.

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Marc D'Amico @celtics
about 17 minutes ago
Grant Williams says the team is re-setting it’s mindset to being 0-0 heading into the tournament. Just like in the regular season, he says, the qualifying games don’t matter. It’s what you do when the Playoffs begin.

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Jay King
Jay King @ByJayKing
about 23 minutes ago
Robert Williams: “I’m a great passer.”

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Marc D'Amico
Marc D'Amico @celtics
about 25 minutes ago
Scott Morrison says that tonight was “the best I’ve ever seen [Robert Williams] rebound.”

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Jay King
Jay King @ByJayKing
about 25 minutes ago
Robert Williams: “I love passing the ball.”

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Jay King
Jay King @ByJayKing
about 26 minutes ago
Was Robert Williams looking forward to his matchup with Brandon Clarke? “Just looking forward to winning.”

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Jay King
Jay King @ByJayKing
about 28 minutes ago
Scott Morrison said tonight was the best he’s ever seen Robert Williams rebound. Thinks the big man’s passing, which the team has seen behind the scenes, is beginning to emerge more and more.

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Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
about 54 minutes ago
Tacko Fall entering the game plus underhanded free throws = pure euphoria for crowd.

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Marc D'Amico @celtics
57 minutes ago
droppin dimes ttps://twitter.com/i/status/1149529528735154176ob
MY NOTE:  Robert Williams with the Horford high pist entry pass.  Brad's eyes must have started glowing when he saw this.



Jay King @ByJayKing
about 1 hour ago
Robert Williams now up to 16 points, 16 rebounds and four assists.





Steve Bulpett @SteveBHoop
yesterday
Grayson Allen, now with the Grizzlies, has picked up a technical foul and now two flagrant fouls (and ejection) in this summer league game against the Celtics... So, yeah, he was just a misunderstood kid at Duke.

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Marc D'Amico @celtics
yesterday
TACKO DESTROYS THE RIM pic.twitter.com/GttnD7Tvhz

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Jared Weiss
Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA
yesterday
The irony is that while Tacko clogs the lane for post ups and drives, he can get boxed out and still control the boards, so the lack of spacing doesn’t have much of a negative impact.

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Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA
yesterday
Grant Williams’ positional defense is insane for a 20-year-old. He reads the flow of the offense and gets to the spot in the lane before the offensive player every single time. If he were 2 inches taller, he would basically be a more skilled Wendell Carter (aka Al Horford).

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Brian Robb
Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
yesterday
Grant Williams is now up to 40 percent (6-of-15) shooting from 3-point range in summer league.

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Brian Robb
Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
yesterday
Carsen Edwards is shooting 51 percent from 3-point range (14/27) during summer league.

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Steve Bulpett @SteveBHoop
yesterday
Carsen Edwards firing away from beyond the arc without a nanosecond of hesitation. Carsen Edwards is Danny Ainge's spirit animal.

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Chris Grenham
@chrisgrenham
Grant Williams with the rebound, leads the break and finishes with a lob to Robert Williams:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1149513222619164673


Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
yesterday
I did not expect Grant Williams to be to handle the ball in transition as well as he has.

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Jared Weiss
Jared Weiss @JaredWeissNBA
yesterday
“He could’ve volleyball spiked that with his brain” is a helluva call for a Time Lord alley-oop.

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Brian Robb @BrianTRobb
yesterday
This may be the best Celtics summer league team ever.

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Team play, coordinated team play, everyone doing their job!

This is what was missing big time from last years squad. I hope we can keep enough of these young guys to infect our veterans with the virus of team play.

We could be a lot better this year than most people think.

Am loving summer league this year, it's pure joy.

Berlin-T

YOY improvement by developing players is all you can hope for. RW had a complete game. All the little flashes of skills were combined together and resulted in 4 assists sandwiched in between 16 points and 16 rebounds. If he can bring that level of play to the game consistently the Celtics will be a very good team.

In other news, Grayson Allen is still a jerk.

mrkleen09 wrote:In other news, Grayson Allen is still a jerk.

He was off his meds.

cowens/oldschool wrote:

dboss wrote:

mrkleen09 wrote:In other news, Grayson Allen is still a jerk.

He was off his meds.

Look forward to that guy getting payback....take that bitch

For those who didn't see what Grayson Allen did that got him ejected from a summer league game, like me, here's the video.  I'm almost hoping he makes the Grizzlies or some other team just to watch him get pulverized the first time he forgets to look for a back screen.

Fake tough guy. Listen to the announcers talk about him.





bob


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